How to Use Furcated in a Sentence?

intransitive verb
Divide into two or more branches; fork. 'All the rays are trifurcated at their tips and repeatedly furcated into three branches, but some of the last branches are the result of bifurcation.

What is the meaning of Furcated?

vb. to divide into two parts; fork. adj. forked; divided: furcate branches. [C19: from Late Latin furcātus forked, from Latin furca a fork]

Is Trifurcate a word?

The word trifurcate can be used as an adjective meaning divided into three branches, but the adjective trifurcated is more commonly used in this way. ... The related and more common word bifurcate means to divide or fork into two branches.

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